Author: Macworld

Looking for the way to join tracks when you rip CDs with iTunes 11? Need to know how to get tracks into playlists quickly? What about iTunes Store device limits and gifting apps? All this and more in this week’s column.

Q: I am unable to join …

You learn a lot after four months of working at a tech shop window.

Between October of 2012 and February of 2013, I was part of the University of California Berkeley’s tech repair window staff. The Apple certifications had been earned, the time…

The easiest way to access OS X’s powerful Spotlight search technology is using the systemwide Spotlight menu. But chances are you aren’t getting as much out of this menu as you could be. In this video, Dan Frakes show you a few tricks for making…

Most of the time, you hit a volume button on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad, and it does what you expect, whether it’s turning up your reminder alarms or turning down your music. And then there are the other times.

But once you understand th…

It’s been about eight years since I first looked at Evoluent’s VerticalMouse 2 for another publication. The company is now at the fourth iteration of its ergonomically focused input device, appropriately named the VerticalMouse 4 (or, more spe…

Last week we explored the Users & Groups system preference. In that lesson I didn’t throughly explain the Parental Controls preference. Now’s the time.

It’s the unwise parent who grants their young child unguarded access to the Interne…

Customization: meDrive settings are accessible through a browser.

Kanex’s meDrive is supposed to make it easy to set up a file server on your home network. It’s a small device that you plug into your network router after you’ve attached your …

With smartphone cameras and their dedicated apps—primarily one app called Instagram—photo filters have emerged not only as a way of life, but as almost a de rigueur aspect of mobile shooting and sharing.
The opening interface lets you aim and t…

Reader Tim Kisanuki is a bit late to the party and is unsure what to expect when he arrives. He writes:

I’ve been running Snow Leopard on my iMac since it was released. I’m finally ready to upgrade to Mountain Lion. Before I do, can you tel…

I use Logitech’s Wireless Solar Keyboard K750 () every day. That keyboard satisfies my particular needs: I prefer a full-size keyboard with a number pad, and I want it to work wirelessly without having to remember to change batteries.

Since I …

Orchid Games’ Spirit Walkers: Curse of the Cypress Witch, the popular iPhone and iPad puzzle and adventure game, has finally made its way to the Mac.

Spirit Walkers starts with a group of friends telling the story of the Cypress Witch, a woman…

The $50 BearExtender Mini is the follow-up to the company’s 2010 BearExtender n3 (). Like its predecessor, the BearExtender Mini’s goal is to let you use your Mac from further away from your wireless base station. The new model is half the size…

You can have a lot of fun with Siri, the artificially intelligent, voice recognition-based assistant built into newer iPhones and iPads. But fun though Siri may be, it turns out the little voice inside your iOS device can also help you become incr…

Reader Elsa Pederson finds her Mac mysteriously out of memory. She writes:

Today I saw a message I’d never seen before. It indicated that my Mac had run out of application memory. In order to keep working I had to force quit some of my open ap…

Evernote has become my paperless filing cabinet for everything from receipts to tax documents. One of the things I use it for most frequently is to file the monthly statements for my phone, cable, and other accounts.

In the past, those statement…

You click Print, and then wait a moment. Nothing happens. Your attempt has clearly failed. A brief check confirms that the problem is not limited to one document or one app. You can’t print anything. Now what?

The number of causes and fixes for …